Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-09-14
DAKOTA NEWS.
The Bath Herald has suspended.

The Bath Herald has suspended.
Hon. NJ. H. Day is in Washington.
M. M. Warner has been appointed
postmaster at Frederick.
No frost has yet occurred OF Big Stone
City and corn is perfectly ripe.
- A vote has been ordered taken on the
local option question IN Deuel. county.
AR election OF the 10 al option ques-
ton has bean ordered in Hughes county.
The DeSmet Roller mills will have o
capacity of sixty barrels OF four per day.
Mrs. Schultz, the lady at Bristol
who was gored by a bull, has since died.
The planning mill of II. Grimmels, at
Sioux Falls, burned last spring, is being
rebuilt.
Too much rain is the universal COM
plant Of the farmers in the vicinity Of
DeSmet.
The Bethel Methodist church, in Ben
ton township, near Sioux Falls, has been
dedicated.
Huron is no longer the scene of grim
visaged war, and the people have returned
OF their peaceful pursuits.
Sheriff Hanson, of Day county, ar
rested at Webster, Riley Vanderford,
charged with horse stealing.
Gen. Fairchild, Gen. Allen and Judge
Palmer were given a reception at Sioux
Falls by the G. A.. r. post.
The machinery for the metallurgical
laboratory in the School of Mines, Of the
Black Hills, filled three cars, and the
freight was 800.
The Aberdeen rost-ofice did $500
more business during tina month of August
just passed than during any one month
since it was established.
Solemn Pitcher was fatally shot while
hunting prairie chickens by his comp ,nion
accidentally, four miles southeast OF Clare
mont, in Brown county.
Hon. J. II. Fletcher, of Brown county,
had the misfortune to run a tine of a pitch
fork through his foot while trying to ex-
terminate a lively gopher.
Camp Grant was the name given to
the militia encampment at Fargo, Camp
Hancock at Aberdeen, and the Huron en-
campment was called Camp Church.
John Shuler, near Aberu cen, has
thrashed $500 bushels Of wheat from 142
acres of ground, making an average yield
of nearly twenty-four bushels per acre.
There Is complaint that the Indians of
the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies in
Dakota are roaming around off their res
ervations destroying gam, and i~njuring
crops.
-Ex- Gov. Ordway denies that he has
made a vast amount of money on Capital
hill, Washington, but says he has plenty
of money. e also keeps q close watch of
Dakota affairs.
The Methodist conference which
meets at Aberdeen October 10, will be
composed of liz ministerial and 1l2 lay
delegates. 1t will represent 5000 men,
bers of that church.
Bishop Marty, of the Catholic church,
has established Saint Rose Academy at
Sioux Falls, and an effort will be made t
get the cathedral and make that the Catho-
lie see city of Dakota.
The bid of S. r. Clover, of Sioux
Falls, for printing the compilation of the
laws of the territory was the lowest. Com
piler Price estimates that the volumes will
cost about $1.5O a piece.
The election which was ordered at
Aberdeen, September 6 to vote $4,000
bonds for sewerage, has been postponed.
The Nears expects the council will fix o
new date for the election.
Among Burleigh c~ounty's exhibit at
the Minnesota state fair was a squash that
weighed 1875 pounds. The Bismarckers
evidently think they are some pumpkins in
an agricultural way as well as politically.
-Ex- Gov. N. G. Ordway has presented
the university of North Dakota at Grand
Forks, handsomely autographed copies of
two letters received by him while governor,
from Prince Otto Won Bismarck, chancellor
of the German empire, on the occasion of
the latter receiving notice that Dakota's
capital seat was named in his honor.
The grand review of the Dakota Ma
tional Guard occurred at Huron recently,
reviewed by Gov. Church and staff from
the grand stand at the corner Of Third
street and Dakota avenue. Upon this
stand, or mounted on the street below,
was Governor Church, Generel Tyner,
Colonel Townsend and Captain Pitnam,
U. s. A., General Ringrose, Colonies Nc
Carly, Huff, Corwin, Goodner, Gale,
Wilder, Dewey, Mulcahy, Lynch, Captains
Lewis and Hollenbeck. Also Mayer Rice
and all the ci y council, Receiver Miller,
Register Mcfarland, Surveyor General
Taylor, Postmaster Love, Delegate Clifford,
Hon. J. d. Lawler, of Mitchell; Rev. S. G.
Updyke, of Brookings; Grand Prelate Of
the Grand Lodge of Dakota, A. F. and A.
NJ. Colonel Townsend and Captain Pit.
man, of the United States army, were very
complimentary to the officers and men, and
said that everything was highly satisfac-
tory. Among the distinguished visitors
were 0. S. Clifford, of Canton; d. NJ. In
man, of Vermillion; General Harrison Al
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